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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Hoax
townhall.com ^ | 7/3/2014 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 07/03/2014 6:49:39 AM PDT by rktman

..... In support of bag bans, the Surfrider Foundation has posted a video that asserts, "Plastics kill 1.5 million marine animals each year."

"I have no idea where they got that number," Joel Baker, environmental science professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma, told me. He has assigned students to track down that number, and "the trail goes cold." ....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algorisms; ecowackos; gangreen; garbagepatch; hoax
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To: publius911
I suppose that explains why, from time to time, we read about another death by drinking too much water, by nut jobs or "jackass" types

Well, there you go, I suppose that's why he qualified his remark with "almost".

41 posted on 07/03/2014 6:13:14 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (1 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. Psalm 50 v 10)
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To: gettinolder

“I explained what he was looking at was kelp...”

You mean those Japanese just toss their unwanted food into the ocean!?


42 posted on 07/03/2014 6:15:35 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: shotgun

In school we learned about the “right hand rule” regarding electromagnetics.

We also learned about the “left hand rule”. If something doesn’t seem right with regard to a number, it might be his left hand is a bit stinky.


43 posted on 07/03/2014 6:18:23 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: RIghtwardHo
I always wonder how much pollution is caused by recycling our pc’s, printers, tv’s, etc. Most of them get shipped back to China, torn apart and melted down to get the metals, and most of the rest gets tossed somewhere. I recall one photo showing half-naked kids stripping them down, piles of crap all over, and melting fires amongst their shanties. Dumping them in a good-old sealed American landfill would probably be better for the environment.
44 posted on 07/03/2014 6:22:00 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: publius911

Thank you.


45 posted on 07/03/2014 9:19:26 PM PDT by gettinolder
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